Category: SharePoint 2013

Summary: This blog post describes how to get document previews for SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises results after configuring Cloud Hybrid Search. After setting up Cloud Hybrid Search, you might find that document previews are working for your SharePoint Online content, but not for your on-premises content. Microsoft uses Office Online Server (OOS) in Office Read more about Document previews using Cloud Hybrid Search[…]

Summary: This post provides an overview of all hybrid SharePoint features that were released by Microsoft for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016. During Ignite 2016 in Atlanta, Microsoft released some really cool hybrid features, that I would like to share some information about. The really cool thing about this is that they are not only Read more about Hybrid features in SharePoint 2013 and 2016[…]

Update: Microsoft included the fix in the hybrid picker experience. This means you no longer have to perform the steps outlined in this blog post. You can find the updated article by Microsoft here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/beyondsharepoint/2016/09/15/considerations-when-deploying-sharepoint-office365-hybrid-workloads-in-a-farm-utilizing-provider-hosted-add-ins-or-workflow-manager/ For hybrid search (outbound/inbound query federation or Cloud Hybrid Search Service Application) a manual approach is needed to remediate this Read more about Fixing apps after configuring SharePoint Hybrid[…]

Summary: This PowerShell one-liner will show the people picker settings for each Web Application, including Central Administration. If you want to know the settings for the people picker in your SharePoint farm, you can run the following line of PowerShell. It will retrieve all Web Applications and show the people picker settings for each one. Running Read more about People picker settings for all Web Applications one-liner[…]

Summary: This blog post describes some limitations that you need to consider before implementing cloud hybrid search in your organization. Do not hesitate to contact me on twitter or LinkedIn to see if there are any changes that are not reflected in this blog post. For a full overview of how Cloud Hybrid Search works, read my Read more about Cloud hybrid search considerations[…]

Summary: This article discusses the new cloud hybrid search service application. Use this article to configure cloud hybrid search in your organization and learn what you need to know. If you need to decide whether to use or not use cloud hybrid search, please read my Cloud hybrid search considerations blog post before deploying cloud Read more about Everything you need to know about Cloud Hybrid Search[…]

The new Cloud Hybrid Search has been released in preview in September 2015. Seeing the demos I was really excited to try this. One of our customers was already in need of this technology, so we proposed to configure Cloud Hybrid Search on their test environment. The onboarding process seemed pretty straightforward and we used Read more about Cloud Hybrid Search proxy settings[…]

I’ve been working on a script that will allow you to download all files that are stored in SharePoint in a given site collection. If the path does not exist, the script will prompt you to create it for you. Before the script runs, it also checks if the site collection exists. Run the script Read more about Download content from a site collection[…]